Well, $2000 isn’t enough for a new Cadillac.
No, what I read was what I posted, except I spelled Vuitton incorrectly. A “senior employee” of the store at Lenox Square in Atlanta was quoted as saying two of the $800 purses had been purchased. I’m sorry I don’t know how to post the link, but I’m sure there can’t be that many "FARK"s around.
And I went back and checked again after I read your post.
The source for fark was a gossip column in the New York Daily News. Not perhaps the equivilant of the Socialist News, but not far off.
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If you only read Fark’s misleading summary(“Your tax dollars at work: Katrina victims using their FEMA-provided debit cards to buy $800 Louis Vuitton purses and other luxury items”) you might have thought the users of the cards were the recipients of the cards.
But, since you read the original article, you must have noticed that nowhere did it say that the users were the recipients of the cards.
I was merely saying that the users were perhaps NOT the recipients of the card. We have no evidence.
I just took some extra tinfoil to my brother tonight. He’s been up late listening to the police scanners and talking to some internet people…I guess I could reveal “the plan”, but I have kind of a headache :eek: right now.
Would FEMA just hand out blank cards that could be sold? With no name or anything requiring ID for them to be used? That’s the stupidest thing…oh, that’s right, the discussion was about FEMA. I stupidly assumed (and you know what they say about assumptions) that the government wasn’t stupid enough to do that. I haven’t quite gotten my brain around the fact that the government isn’t as “in control” as I’ve been hearing for the last four years.
got any proof that the refugees have ID??
Have you ever been asked to supply ID when paying by debit card?
Ok, I’m stupid. I just never considered FEMA would give out debit cards that could be sold. I never met a purse worth $800, either. I’ll just climb back in my ivory tower, thanks.
At the risk of stating the obvious, your PIN is your ID as far as debit cards are concerned. Do we know how the FEMA-issued cards worked? PIN or signature? Or neither (which would be so colossally… oh, right).
Hey, it’s the weekend; I’m sure the right-wing noise machine will spin this effectively come Monday morning. By mid-week, I expect to see the lead item on Fox News to be on the “mounting scandal” of Hurricane Katrina victims using their FEMA debit cards to buy crack cocaine and scam a poor innocent Houston Hummer dealer out of a half-dozen shiny new H2s.